Sam Allardyce Managers Reaction West Ham v Crystal Palace
To lose to another penalty, having lost to Liverpool on two penalties is just heart-wrenching for us. I have to be fair – it was a silly penalty and Pablo probably didn’t need to do it, and it cost us dear.
We got in the final third so many times that we should have produced something that we usually produce to get at least one goal, but unfortunately we didn’t do that. Chances weren’t going to be easy to come by against a well-organised Crystal Palace team that drop eleven men back into their own half and shut the spaces down, so we had to be clinically good, but unfortunately we weren’t.
It was a very difficult day and my thoughts are obviously with Dylan Tombides’ family, who have supported him from the very beginning of this horrible disease. When I first got here, he was just starting, they thought, to get well following his initial operation, then all of a sudden another problem arose in another area and he tried to fight that particular area for so long.
Dylan’s fight inside him and desire to overcome this disease and play football again were just unbelievable. The way he came in after long bouts of really hard, strenuous treatment that made him very ill indeed, was amazing. He kept bouncing back because football was the only thing he wanted to do. He wanted to play again.
I’m disappointed we lost a game of football, but on a day like that football doesn’t mean an awful lot after what happened to Dylan this week.
Come on you Irons!
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